Motivational Quotes

Life

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Life

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher